Bob Goodlatte: “It is unfortunate that the legislation passed out by the Energy and Commerce Committee, H.R. 2749, the Food Safety…”

I would call attention to something we haven't talked much about here today, and that is the fact that, when the FISA court issues warrants allowing for the surveillance of various parties that are brought to the attention of the court…

The fact of the matter is this Committee has jurisdiction over this narrower focus regarding protecting the Fourth Amendment.

I think the PATRIOT Act went off track in not defining some of the areas that set parameters around government gathering data.

The more opportunities that the consumer has to decide for themselves whether or not they want to make certain information available to Google or other companies and control how Google might utilize that information, the better.